I don't understand why. But according to some of my peers, Wahidah told them that they have to blog about today. "For what?!", I asked. "Or we won't get our grades", so they said. Oh, whatever. Though Alfie didn't mention anything about it, I'm blogging this post just for the sake of blogging. Better be safe than sorry? Maybe. So what can I say about today? We came to school to submit our production package and compiled our blog entries. And that's that!
THE END.
Hi. I'm blogging in the dark again. It's addictive I tell you. This is going to be the last post for this blog and I can go back to my personal space at wordpress.com! It been so long since I last updated in there. Yeh, you won't have to read anymore of my boring posts. There's more life elsewhere. Like, finding a new hobby, get out, smell the flowers and roll on the green grass.
This morning we went back to the 3D lab to transfer the video to tape and to burn it into DVD. Jen tried using her mac to burn it but it didn't work. We took over an hour to get it transferred when it should only take less than an hour! Oh gawd. The fire wire was terrible. It didn't help at all please. We tried to transfer with 2 different video cameras, 5 different fire wires, at least 4 different computers and even tried to burn the video into DVD countless times, but nothing worked! So frustrating. It was already 10mins past noon by then and we were still stuck there. I think we used Yi Chuin's video camera to try out and thanks to her, it put an end to our hair-pulling mad rush. The video transfer to tape was quite fast. Thankfully, the lecturers were kind enough to extend the deadline to 1pm.
Almost the entire cohort was already there when we went to the LT. We quickly settled down and the screening started. Some of the videos were really impressive! I felt like a loser. Too bad, I had to leave for work halfway through the screening. I didn't get to see Raj's video!!! And I was looking forward to that. Anyway, I heard from others that his video is really stunning. Even Mr Ronald couldn't stop whistling and clapping.
To conclude, I've learned a lot from this project. Not only am I more familiar and got to learn more about the softwares used, I have also learned a very valuable lesson. That is to plan properly! Especially for production work. Lots of thoughts have to be put into the planning and it has to be very detailed. One more lesson learnt is teamwork, everyone is important. They are your pillars to support you and are there for you when you fall. We go through thick and thin together. Especially as a group, we help each other and overcome the problems together.
Though, the video didn't turn out very well (cos I know we could've done ten thousand times better, I think.), but in any case, I feel so super relieve now that it's over and at least we managed to complete the video. Really. Trust me when I say that. I'd like to think that everything went pretty well. I'd like to think of myself as an optimist. All in all, I believe it was a good experience for us. The relationships that we've all forged, all the fun and stressful times we've shared are priceless. Man, I hate this feeling. Sitting alone in the dark and feeling emo over this just doesn't feels right.
OOOOOOKKK! SO! Today marks the end of my first year in MOI. I would like to thank each and everyone of you who helped us out any ways, whether is it a favour like helping us to get foods and drinks from the canteen and cheers, or helping us to handle the camera or saving our asses many times when we get ourselves into trouble and of cos, saving our footages from the hard disks and mac and whatever transfers! YOU PEOPLE ARE THE BEST! THANK YOU MANY MANY MUCH!
Last but not least, Alfie, you're awesome! Thank you for being with us and guiding us along.
Last last but not least least, GINABRUDDER! SHUSHU! JENNYFULOPEZ! KALA! MANY MANY THANK YOUS TO YOU GIRLS. GIRL POWER! YAAWWW! Without y'all, the video willl not be completed. The times spent together were really enjoyable. I'm so happy I have such adorable friends!!! XOXOXXXO! Happy holidays!
PS/ My fingers are slim and fit. They have been doing a lot of exercise: typing.
Fare thee well, yall!
Adeline, OUT!
:D What can I say? It's the last day! Okkk! Today was very very extremely productive! Yeh, well, it has to be or we can forget about passing. A lot of happened today. I don't know where to start from. But I'll try my best. Let's get started!
Oh, I'm blogging in the dark. I love blogging in the dark! Time check, 0427.
We met at 11am at the 3D lab and gathered aalllll of the selected video clips and put them together. After that, we did a whole lot of editing to the video and added transitions too. We then added the audio to the video and also used audio transitions for certain effects.
There were quite some jump cuts during the content as we had to slice out certain parts to shorten the length of our video. But that was quickly solved when we put the module processes over the jump cuts. Video transitions were also used to create a better flow in the video and we did more colour corrections to the segments which has bad lighting. However, we couldn't get the lighting that we want for some parts, hence, the inconsistency throughout the video. Shuxian then took over and added in the subtitles for the 3D fundamentals module segment.
Annnnnnddd.... Lo and behold! The video is done! It was 8plus in the evening when we finished the video, but it felt like it was only 3plus in the afternoon. Time flies when you are busy or too engrossed in your work. The past few days has taught me new applications/functions in the software. Really interesting when we discover and learn new things on our own, instead of being spoon-fed all the time. All that was left was to transfer the video to tape and to burn a DVD copy. We tried burning it in school but somehow, we just couldn't! So Jen offered to bring it home and try burning it. If it doesn't work, then we will have to do the transfer tomorrow. Okay, I'm not too worried now. At least we are done with our video. Now we just have to compile our blog entries and print them out for submission together with the production package. Oh yeh, I'm done with putting the production package together!
There will be a screening of all the P1 videos at LT 24 tomorrow. So in other words, the submission of the tape is at noon. Hopefully we can get it done by then. Can't wait to see the videos that my peers have done.
Read me later!
Today was crazy. We started work at 11plus in the morning, all the way till 11plus at night, when the security guard came to chase us out.
The day started with further selection of video clips and editing of the video footage shot during pre-production block. We then had to transfer the videos out of Jen's mac to another computer, so we could work on it as Jen didn't have Premier Pro installed in her mac. We had some problems doing the transfer as the hard disks that we tried using were of a different format. Raj said something like they were not mac compatible I think. Fortunately Sarah was around! She uses a mac and has a hard disk! So we borrowed from her and yeh, the transfer worked. Oh but but but, Apple and Jingyuan needed the hard disk back to edit their group's video that is in it, and so they waited for over two hours for the transfer to be done. They were really sweet as they waited patiently without grumbling. Of cos we felt bad for delaying them.
During the transfer, we went through the list of songs we have selected for the video again. Agreed on three songs. One each for the opening, content and closing. After that was done, we moved on to select the video clips from the pre-production block.
Just as we thought everything was going on fine. Shuxian had some problems with the animation for the fast-motion video, but she quickly fixed that. Next was Jen. The pictures of her "still-pictures video" were in the wrong size. Ahh... She had to resize all of them.
We were all tired from staring at the computer screen all day long. It was about 8pm when Kala had to leave. Shuxian left quite some time after Kala. Jen stayed till 10plus. And Gina and I left at 11plus because we were trying to put the video clips together. We still have a few more clips to add in tomorrow. The problems faced at the last minute is neverending. It happens all the time. Gin and I realised that our video is too lengthy (it's not supposed to exceed 10mins). We discussed and agreed to shorten and fast-forward some parts of the interview.
Gina brought home the audio-speech of the video clips. Initially, we planned to use the separated audio which we recorded using the compressor mic as it is of a better quality. But figured that we don't have the time to go through all of that because we have to ensure that the audio has to be in sync with the selected video clip. So a safer option would be to take the audio from the selected video clip and do whatever she can to polish it.
Alright, gotta go! There's more to do tomorrow! I can feel the sense of urgency creeping into my blood.
We met up at Gin's place early this afternoon. A pity Kala couldn't join us. We continued working on the task assigned to us individually as we were not done with them yet. Gina installed Premier Pro into her computer so we could put the clips together when we were done with our individual tasks. But the data couldn't be transferred to her computer. Bah, what's new. All those transferrings are driving us mad. We decided that we will have to leave that for tomorrow when we go back to school. Time is running out. Just keeping our fingers crossed and that hopefully we are able to get everything done asap because we got to transfer the final video to tape and burn it into dvd by Tuesday. There you go, another transfer.
Where is the sense of urgency. Gotta admit that we digressed way too much. Wasn't a very productive day. But we had fun! I'm so happy I have such adorable groupmates. After today, we got to be dead serious for at least the next two days. Did I just say two days? TWO MORE DAYS! :D
Toodles!
Because I don't come here as often as I'd like to, every time I decide to blog, I have to back-track quite a bit.
Last friday, Kala came down to school in the morning to hand over the animated fast-motion video. I think she worked through the night to complete that as she had to leave for a family event in the afternoon till sunday.
Moving on, we spent the whole day working in the 3D lab. Each of us were assigned to different task to work on. Shuxian edited the font for the fast-motion video as the fonts were not the ones that we plan to use. Can you imagine how much work that is? EVERYTHING has to be changed! The font, the size and the position of the words. That's a lot of work eh? So anyway, Jen compiled the edited pictures together in After Effects, while Gin and I did the selection of clips from all the video footages we have. Thank God Kala already edited some parts away. So Gin and I just had to sit through the footages and pick the ones with the best take. After selecting the clips we want, we then piece everything together and we figured that we can actually adjust the brightness in Premier Pro! Got to play around with the levels. I felt so relieve because I thought that the lighting was really bad and was hoping that something could be done to make it look better. Not much was done today as we spent a lot of time transferring all the footages into Jen's sexy Mac and Shuxian's hard disk for backup. We are kiasu. Or was that supposed to be kiasi? Whatever, not a big difference there. So the only footage that is left to edit is the one we shot during pre-production block.
Before we left, all of us sat down to discuss and made more plans. We are going to meet up at Gin's place on Sunday and so had to plan out what each of us has to do. Oh yeh, next week is the week. It's going to be the week of mixed feelings. First half of the week will be filled with kanchiong-ness and a couple of other negative feelings. Second half of the week will beeeeeee...... filled with HAPPINESS! All sugar-coated smiles and butterflies! I can't wait for next week but yet wish that we had more time.
Okay, blog soon. Terrah!
The rain has been crazy. No where near lemondrops and gumdrops.
Okkkk! So all the photos have been edited in Photoshop and passed on to Jen so she can put them together using Adobe After Effects. Shuxian and Jen did the credits roll. Short and sweet. I think Kala continued with animating the words. And Gina and I continued with the song selection for the video. We have quite few handful of suitable ones, can't really decide on which to use. That's the problem when you have too many. But when you don't have enough, you panic.
Anyway, I'm quite worried because we haven't really done anything for the audio yet. And yes, we know that audio is important too. Gina told us about a new software she found, if I'm not wrong, it's called 'Adobe Audition'. So we will be using that instead of 'Audacity'.
We went to the diploma show too. There were so many things to see! Spent about an hour plus at the MOI booths watching short films and animations by our seniors. Some of the works were really good. Too bad we didn't have the time to watch every single one. Gina and I were saying that it's funny how discouraged and intimidated we felt when we should actually feel motivated to do better. But really. The difference in quality when I compare our video to they videos at the dip show is really grrrreeeaat! I don't know what to say. I wonder if I could even produce something up to that standard when it's my turn to do FYP. Hopefully I can be as good or even better. Got to work hard and hope for the best.
